STATE OF NEW YORK
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8304
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
falconry
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 11-1001 of the environmental conservation law, as
2 added by chapter 825 of the laws of 1973, subdivision 1 as amended by
3 chapter 325 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 11-1001. Definitions.
5 (1) "Raptors" means all species of the orders Strigiformes and Falco-
6 niformes and shall include but not be limited to falcons, hawks, owls
7 and eagles except the golden eagle (Aquila [chrysaetor] chrysaetos) and
8 bald eagle (Haliaetus leucocephalus) and all birds listed as endangered
9 or threatened pursuant to section 11-0535 of this article. However,
10 [properly banded peregrine falcons which are the progeny of birds
11 lawfully acquired prior to 1978 are] lawfully acquired golden eagles,
12 peregrine falcons, and their progeny are raptors within the meaning of
13 this section.
14 (2) "Falconry" means the sport of hunting by the use of trained
15 raptors and includes the training, feeding and handling of such birds
16 and their recapture after being released for hunting or training.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13299-01-5
